dropped sole

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noun

vet science a condition in which the foot of a horse is convex instead of concaveAlso called: convex sole

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Words nearby dropped sole

dropout, droppage, drop pass, dropped egg, dropped seat, dropped sole, dropped waist, dropper, dropper-in, dropping, dropping bottle

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In the middle of all of that past suffering and present-day conflict, this Cosby bomb was dropped.
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However, the Air Force is so strapped for people that the ratio has dropped below even that reduced level.
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Jourdan Dunn is the first sole black woman to feature on a British ‘Vogue’ cover in 12 years.
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It took me 1,015 strokes to see this shade of green in a world of orange, and my jaw nearly dropped.
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It cost several thousand dollars and a high-powered former district attorney to get the charges dropped.
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"Better so," was the Senora's sole reply; and she fell again into still deeper, more perplexed thought about the hidden treasure.
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As the weeks wore on, the pretence of practical teaching was quietly dropped, and we crammed our science out of the text-book.
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There was a time when Aristide Pujol, in sole charge of an automobile, went gaily scuttering over the roads of France.
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As the window dropped, Ripperda saw the wounded postilion fall on the neck of his horse.
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It is to be feared that the attractions of the house-dinner were not the sole inducement to many of those sitting there.
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